What You'll Do
In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring that the development team's capabilities are delivered in-scope, on-time and of high quality, participating in all team ceremonies including standups, planning, backlog refinement, review and retrospectives. In addition to the core development team responsibilities, you will also work directly with engineering, scrum masters and other product teams ensuring that your product deliverables are met.

• For starters, you'll partner with engineering teams to define solutions to problems we are trying to solve for our clients, our long-term strategy, and the total addressable market. You'll also partner with client support and business stakeholders to observe and solicit feedback from clients.
• You'll be the person who gets an in-depth understanding of issues that arise, throughout the product development lifecycle, studying them from a variety of angles.
• You'll make recommendations to our Scrum Teams, and partner with a variety of groups - from architecture and engineering to other business stakeholders - to help us ensure we're delivering our best work and products. Here's a peek at some of the expectations that come with those areas:

Planning:

• Support Release Train and scrum team(s) via Product planning, managing the product backlog and software development details, and maintaining velocity.
• Prioritize and manage backlog and implementation, ensure product execution meets strategy and requirements, and refine features into user stories and story acceptance criteria.
• Partner with Product Managers to understand and influence product strategy and roadmaps, aggregate and conceive ideas for enhancing product performance and achieving product success/KPIs.

Development:

• Work with development team(s) to groom and refine the product backlog to ensure the development team works on priority items from the perspective of the stakeholders.
• Lead multiple scrum teams to build, enhance and manage one or more products, capabilities or services.
• Coordinate with other Agile Product Managers to deliver on a vision that crosses multiple delivery streams on release trains.
• Advise sales, sales operations, client solutions, and client marketing teams to communicate product performance and value for in-market products.

• Facilitate open communication and discussion between stakeholders, acting as a single point of contact by developing, maintaining and working to stakeholder engagement strategies and plans. Facilitates business decision-making processes. Captures and disseminates technical and business information.

Technical/Functional Skills

• Ability to manage the development lifecycle with the scrum team, championing multiple products supported by multiple groomed sprints in a backlog.
• Manage product and sprint backlog for a particular domain or feature area by carefully considering customer needs under resource, scope and time restraints ensuring transparency.
• Drives for clarity when dealing with ambiguous requirements or late customer requests.
• Demonstrate an adept understanding of customer needs and anticipate these changes for efficient development.
• Requirement Definition & Management - Plans and drives scoping, requirements definition and prioritization activities for large, complex initiatives.
• Project Management - Takes full responsibility for the definition, documentation and successful completion of complex projects (typically with significant business, political, or high-profile impact, and high-risk dependencies).
• Prioritizes product requirements and owns the product backlog. Responsible for one or more products, depending upon the product's complexity.

Who You Are

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 6 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 4 years' experience; a Ph.D. and 1 year of experience; or 10 years' experience in a related field
• 7+ years; or equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.
• Working knowledge for SAFe Agile Methodology.
• Actively seeks out new knowledge for own personal development and the mentoring or coaching of others.
• Working experience in full product lifecycle methodologies.
• Working experience in creating, prioritizing and recommending epics and features.
• Working experience in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment.

What's In It For You?

• Really good question, and we have some good answers that we hope you like.
• You'll get to work with a wide range of products and technologies across the Cox Automotive ecosystem, allowing you to have a hands-on experience in transforming an industry. We don't believe in limitations, only possibilities. Our technological capabilities combined with your wisdom and wizardry will allow us to grow the good and drive incredible innovation.
• We want you to feel cared for and respected. That starts with Cox's competitive pay and other compensation perks: 401k + company matching, comprehensive medical benefits, etc. We also offer discounted Cox services, tuition reimbursement for academic pursuits, adoption assistance, paid time off to volunteer, childcare and eldercare resources, pet insurance and much more.
• We know you're always looking for growth and the opportunity to learn new things. At Cox Automotive, you'll have all kinds of opportunities to expand your expertise and grow your skills in ways that will challenge and empower you.
• You'll quite literally have an opportunity to make the world a better place. Across the Cox family of businesses, we've launched a movement to positively impact 34 million lives by 2034 in areas like technology access and education, social equity, and environmental sustainability.

• Apply now to join the Cox family of businesses!

USD 106,700.00 - 177,900.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary of $106,700.00 - $177,900.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
Benefits:
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, parental leave, and COVID-19 vaccination leave.
About Cox Automotive
At Cox Automotive, people of every background are driven by their passion for mobility, innovation and community. We transform the way the world buys, sells, owns and uses cars, accelerating the industry with global powerhouse brands like Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book, Manheim and more. What's more, we do it all with an emphasis on employee growth and happiness. Drive your future forward and join Cox Automotive today!
About Cox
Cox empowers employees to build a better future and has been doing so for over 120 years. With exciting investments and innovations across transportation, communications, cleantech and healthcare, our family of businesses - which includes Cox Automotive and Cox Communications - is forging a better future for us all. Ready to make your mark? Join us today!
Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page .
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